Wes Anderson / Donna Kornhaber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kornhaber, Donna, 1979- author.

Series:

Contemporary film directors

Contemporary Film directors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anderson, Wes, 1969---Criticism and interpretation.

Anderson, Wes.

Anderson, Wes, 1969-.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 176 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

Summary:

The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom have made Wes Anderson a filmmaking force. Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums have become quotable cult classics. Yet every new Anderson release brings out droves of critics eager to charge him with stylistic excess and self-indulgent eclecticism. Donna Kornhaber approaches Anderson's style as the necessary product of the narrative and thematic concerns that define his body of work. Using Anderson's focus on collecting. Kornhaber situates the director as the curator of his filmic worlds, a prime mover who artfully and conscientiously arranges diverse components into cohesive collections and taxonomies. Anderson peoples each mise-en-scéne in his ongoing "Wesworld" with characters orphaned, lost, and out of place amidst a riot of handmade clutter and relies. Within, they seek a wholeness and collective identity they manifestly lack, with their pain expressed via an ordered emotional palette that, despite being muted, cries out for attention. As Kornhaber shows, Anderson's films offer nothing less than a fascinating study in the sensation of belonging told by characters who possess it the least. Covering Anderson's entire œuvre and including an interview with the director, Wes Anderson is an entertaining look at one of our most beloved and polarizing filmmakers. Book jacket.

Contents:

A Collector's Cinema 1

Theorizing the Collector 13

Collecting with Style 18

Anderson's Worlds 18

Anderson's Comedy 25

Anderson's Camera 28

The Contents of the Curio Cabinet 43

Shelf 1: Anderson's Family Heirlooms 43

The Royal Tenenbaums 43

The Darjeeling Limited 58

Fantastic Mr. Fox 70

Shelf 2: Anderson's Faux Families 79

Rushmore 79

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 87

Bottle Rocket 98

Shelf 3: Anderson's Matched Pairs 107

Moonrise Kingdom 107

The Grand Budapest Hotel 122

Collecting Wes Anderson 136

Anderson's Collected Works 136

Building the Collection: Anderson's Method of Production 142

The Collector as Author 146

The Reorganization of Life: An Interview with Wes Anderson 151.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kornhaber, Donna, 1979- Wes Anderson.

ISBN:

9780252041181

0252041186

9780252082726

0252082729

OCLC:

969973593